This sustainable home located in Mosman Park, Australia, has been recently designed by Robeson Architects.

Description
The brief for this young family and grandmother (in the future) was to create a wheel chair accessible, and sustainable home. All areas of the house had to be wheelchair accessible, complying with the gold standard of the liveable housing design guidelines which calls for wider hallways, doorways and circulation spaces generally. This also meant the design needed to address the slope of the site through external ramps and handrails which enables someone to transverse from the front boundary to the rear without going up and down a step. Another future proofing feature was the inclusion of the granny flat on the ground floor with its on kitchenette, ensuite and private entry. This space will be used as a yoga studio until the stage when their grandmother should move in. An extra off street car bay is also provided adjacent to this room with graded access. As well as future proofing the house, sustainability and passive design run through the bones of this house, literally. Even the timber used in the wall studs and cabinetry carcasses are FSC certified. Sustainability and passive design are buzzwords in architecture which can often be applied in a tokenistic way. But with a client who was genuine and passionate about applying these design principles we could implement them at all levels and in all details. The building is clad in rec...